A few months back I was invited to talk about the "GeoWeb" at the Texas GIS Forum. Somehow I pulled a great slot - first presenter in the first session following the keynote by Dr. Bill Gail from the Virtual Earth group. I chose to talk about "Usability in the GeoWeb" - you can download the presentation (as PDF) at SlideShare.net and view it below. The basic gist of the talk is that traditional Web Development groups are moving into our market space. In order to avoid having them "eat our lunch", we need to adopt some of their techniques to make sure we build usable, high-performance applications. Check it out.
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